Bayer Leverkusen announced Thursday that they have joined Bayern Munich in having their home German Cup tie moved from late December until January to help ease their congested fixture list European champions Bayern Munich said Friday they had been allowed to postpone next month's German Cup tie until January to grant them more rest in a condensed fixture schedule Holders Bayern Munich face an kilometre mile trip north to Holstein Kiel next month after being paired with the second division club in Sunday's German Cup draw Struggling Schalke enjoyed their first win since February on Tuesday when they came from behind to beat fourth-tier minnows Schweinfurt in a re-arranged German Cup, first round match Seventeen-year-old Jude Bellingham scored on his debut for Borussia Dortmund in a victory over third division Duisburg in the first round of the German Cup on Monday Report an error Print.

SpVgg Greuther Fürth. Eintracht Braunschweig. Borussia Dortmund. SV 07 Elversberg. Dynamo Dresden. FC Union Berlin. Greuther Fürth.

SSV Ulm FC Schalke FC Köln. VfL Osnabrück. FC Augsburg. RB Leipzig. SV Elversberg. Dynamo Dresden.

SV Darmstadt Union Berlin. SC Paderborn. Wed Dec 23, VfL Wolfsburg. SV Sandhausen. RW Essen. Wehen Wiesbaden.

Jahn Regensburg. VfB Stuttgart. SC Freiburg. Hannover Werder Bremen. FSV Mainz VfL Bochum. Tue Jan 12, Wed Jan 13, Holstein Kiel.

Bayern Munich. First Round. The first final was contested between the two most successful clubs of that era, 1. FC Nürnberg and Schalke 04 , with Nürnberg winning 2—0.

In , the original trophy, Goldfasanen-Pokal , was substituted by the trophy which is still awarded today, because the original reminded DFB president Peco Bauwens of the Nazi era.

Originally, the DFB-Pokal was a competition open to clubs from the top divisions of German football only. This continued after the establishment of the Bundesliga in Semi-professional and amateur clubs could only enter the competition from onwards, when it was enlarged.

Up until , only the top two divisions of German football, the Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga, were fully professional but from , with the establishment of the 3.

Liga, the third tier also became fully professional. From the start, the new match ups between Bundesliga and amateurs most usually third division clubs became a source of surprises.

Often titled the "mother of all cup sensations" German : Die Mutter aller Pokalsensationen , [7] [8] was Hamburger SV 's second round loss to VfB Eppingen in , the first instance of an amateur side knocking out a Bundesliga club.

It took until for a fourth division side to achieve the same, when SpVgg Fürth took Borussia Dortmund out of the competition.

In , 1. FC Magdeburg became the first fourth division side to eliminate two Bundesliga clubs in one season. Bundesliga, became cup winners after eliminating several Bundesliga teams in the process.

Bundesliga team, but were promoted to the Bundesliga a week before they won the cup final. Surprise results in the cup attract strong media coverage in Germany and, at times, abroad.

Having won 20 titles, Bayern Munich has been the most successful team in the cup since they won their fourth title in Fortuna Düsseldorf established a record for consecutive German Cup match victories 18 straight victories between and , taking the trophy in and Werder Bremen had won the most consecutive home games 37 from to Bayern Munich has won the most consecutive away games 33 from to Schalke 04 holds the record for the biggest win in a DFB-Pokal final, winning 5—0 against 1.

It was introduced in and awarded annually until after German reunification in led to the merger of the football leagues of the two Germanys.

An East German women's cup was also held from to At least one match per round is aired free on Das Erste Germany only and Sport1 respectively, total two matches per round.

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